Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Writing in Le Matin, he announced his resignation as a member of the French delegation to the League; and forthwith proceeded to attack its chairman, his onetime chief, Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, a statesman who has been ten times Premier of France...
...Observers thought that seldom before has a great statesman spoken so frankly and unashamedly in the manner of a shrewd, traveling salesman...
Such were words spoken last week in Constantinople by the great Tewfik Rushdi Bey, perhaps the most wholesomely feared and respected Near Eastern statesman. As he talked, the slender, expressive hands of Tewfik Rushdi Bey seemed to articulate his meaning almost more effectively than his precise, somewhat mincing words. As always, the eyes of the Turkish Foreign Minister seemed abnormally large and penetrating by reason of the thick, magnifying lenses of his glasses...
Some idea of the large issue at stake was embodied last week in an address to the House of Commons by that discerning Liberal statesman, Lieutenant Commander Honorable Joseph Montague Kenworthy. He pictured a naval race between Britain and the U. S., similar to that between Britain and Germany prior to the World War. Said Commander Kenworthy portentously...
...course, who replaced the reputed terrorist Roberto Farinacci as Secretary General of the Fascist Party (TIME, April 12, 1926) ; and at that time Augusto Turati's policies were rated "conservative" and "conciliatory." His speech last week was instructive as an example of the pugnacity which even a "moderate" Fascist statesman must display...